Which loss was more painful?

[Will]

[Q]Beeeej Wrote:

Maybe it'd be possible to require new Div. I programs to have facilities with NHL ice, but they'd probably have to grandfather in the existing ones.

Beeeej[/q]

Interesting idea.  What about already existing programs constructing new facilities?  After all, Mariucci won't stand forever.

[Beeeej]

[Q]Will Wrote:
 [Q2]Beeeej Wrote:
Maybe it'd be possible to require new Div. I programs to have facilities with NHL ice, but they'd probably have to grandfather in the existing ones.[/Q]
Interesting idea.  What about already existing programs constructing new facilities?  After all, Mariucci won't stand forever.[/q]

I meant to include that thought, too.  Thanks for completing it for me.  B-]

Beeeej

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Minnesota will still host regionals.  They just won't hold them at Mariucci.  They'll host them at Xcel Center and draw 15,000 goofer fans to root against us.

But at least they won't have the ice advantage, and that's all it'll take.

[Will]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

 Minnesota will still host regionals.  They just won't hold them at Mariucci.  They'll host them at Xcel Center and draw 15,000 goofer fans to root against us.

But at least they won't have the ice advantage, and that's all it'll take.[/q]

I think it'll also eliminate any sort of advantage big ice would give them, since I believe the Xcel Center is an NHL rink (home of the Minnesota Wild, I think?).

[billhoward]

[Q]Will Wrote:  One wonders if this will be our ultimate revenge on Minnesota.  Then again, the NCAA likes to make money and Minnesota likes to host regionals, so it might do nothing.  But it'll be nice to have the rules on our side in the future.[/q]Minnesota can host all the regionals it wants ... at the Excel Energy Center (in St. Paul) with a I'm pretty sure an NHL size surface. BTW the arena rules say nothing about banning cowbells - weapons yes, cigarettes yes, but cowbells don't appear to be expressly forbidden.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

That's what I meant by my last sentence.  It is NHL size ice.

[KeithK]

How about a rule that any school playing on Olympic ice right now has to disband it's hockey team?  :-D

[DeltaOne81]

Okay, for one, its the Xcel Center... no relation to Microsoft

[Meng \'94]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 [Q2]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

 Minnesota will still host regionals.  They just won't hold them at Mariucci.  They'll host them at Xcel Center and draw 15,000 goofer fans to root against us.

But at least they won't have the ice advantage, and that's all it'll take.[/Q]
I think it'll also eliminate any sort of advantage big ice would give them, since I believe the Xcel Center is an NHL rink (home of the Minnesota Wild, I think?).[/q]

That's correct.  It is a great arena (hosted the 2002 Frozen 4).  If anyone has a chance to see a game at the rink, they should!

Don't know if they would draw 15k fans as they didn't even fill Mariucci.

[adamw]

[Q]Beeeej Wrote:

 Well, it's not like Adam convinced the rules committee to change the rule to prefer NHL ice, he just convinced them to get rid of the rule preferring Olympic ice.[/q]

Actually, I didn't even do that.  I just brought to their attention the fact that, something they agreed shouldn't be there, was still there.  Just a blatant oversight really.

[marty]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 [Q2]Will Wrote:  One wonders if this will be our ultimate revenge on Minnesota.  Then again, the NCAA likes to make money and Minnesota likes to host regionals, so it might do nothing.  But it'll be nice to have the rules on our side in the future.[/Q]
Minnesota can host all the regionals it wants ... at the Excel Energy Center (in St. Paul) with a I'm pretty sure an NHL size surface. BTW the arena rules say nothing about banning cowbells - weapons yes, cigarettes yes, but cowbells don't appear to be expressly forbidden.

[/q]

I assumed that they thought they were removing an illegal noisemaker (per the "RIP noisemaker during the Freakout rule").

Edit:  Sorry, I didn't read the other thread until after I posted here.

[Will]

[Q]adamw Wrote:

 [Q2]Beeeej Wrote:

 Well, it's not like Adam convinced the rules committee to change the rule to prefer NHL ice, he just convinced them to get rid of the rule preferring Olympic ice.[/Q]
Actually, I didn't even do that.  I just brought to their attention the fact that, something they agreed shouldn't be there, was still there.  Just a blatant oversight really.[/q]

Of course, all your naysayers on the USCHO board are saying that you're interfering with NCAA policy and changing the rule around yourself.  It should come as no surprise that a lot of those people are Minnesota fans. ::rolleyes::